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<p><b><i><font color="#990000"><font size=+1>Shaykh Al-Albaani on the Issue
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<br><b><i><font color="#990000"><font size=+1>establishment of the 'Offensive'
Jihaad...</font></font></i></B>
<p><b><i><font color="#000099"><font size=-1>~ Translation by Brother Rafi
Shafi ~</font></font></i></B>
</center><p><center><b><i><font color="#000099"><font size=-1>The following is a translation
from 'Fataawa al-Albaani'&nbsp;</font></font></i></B>
<br><b><i><font color="#000099"><font size=-1>(a transcription of some
of the cassettes of the Shaykh) when&nbsp;</font></font></i></B>
<br><b><i><font color="#000099"><font size=-1>the Shaykh was asked his
opinion on the establishment&nbsp;</font></font></i></B>
<br><b><i><font color="#000099"><font size=-1>of the 'Offensive' Jihaad.</font></font></i></B></center>

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<center><b><i><font color="#000099"><font size=+1>~ A Brief Clarification
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<p>My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Islaam. I would just like to make a
very important clarification of the following <i>Fatwa</i> of our beloved
Shayk<font face="Times New Roman,Times">h Muhammad Naasir ud-Deen Al-Albaani
<i><font color="#000099">(rahi</font></i></font><i><font color="#000099">mahullaah)</font></i>...
<p>It was originally taken from a taped lecture of Shaykh Al-Albaani's
wherein he was asked a question concerning the establishment of the <u>Offensive</u>
Jihaad; wherein the Muslims <i>move out</i> of their Islaamic lands to
fight the <i>Kuffaar</i>, as opposed to the <u>Defensive</u> Jihaad of
today; wherein the Muslim lands have been invaded, and are being attacked
by the <i>Kuffaar</i>, in which case - as the Shaykh clearly states - the
fighting of them becomes a <i>Fard 'ayn</i> upon the Muslims (i.e. absolute
obligation on all who are capable).
<p>It seems that the context, or the surrounding dialogue to this <i>Fatwa</i>
- which would have made this very clear - was, for some reason, left out...
<p>And indeed, the resulting misconception, or misunderstanding which has
come about due to this omission is unfortunate... because this <i>Fatwa</i>
has been spread all throughout the internet, usually along with the false
claim that the establishment of Jihaad in this day and age - whether it
be Offensive, or Defensive - is not permissible without a <i>Khaleefah</i>,
or Imaam for all the Muslims.
<p>But this claim is clearly a false, and absurd one. For if anyone studies
the era when the <i>Tatars</i> (Mongols) - who were declared <i>Kuffaar</i>
by the <i>'Ulamaa</i> - killed the <i>Khilaafah</i> of the Muslims, and
then chose for themselves the rule of the Islaamic world, one will see,
be-ithnillaah, that - even though there was no <i>Khilaafah</i> - the Muslims
waged Jihaad and fought, killed and overthrew these <i>Kuffaar</i>, thus
re-establishing the <i>Khilaafah</i> once again - and among them was Ibn
Taymiyyah <i><font color="#000099">(rahimahullaah)</font></i> <i>himself!</i>
<p>So, clearly, this claim concerning the Defensive Jihaad, is a false
one.
<p>It is also known, as is stated in this very <i>Fatwa</i>, that Shaykh
Al-Albaani (May Allaah <i><font color="#000099">(Ta'aala)</font></i> Illuminate
his grave) believed that the Jihaad in Afghanistan was a legitimate Jihaad
- and yet, obviously, there was no <i>Khilaafah</i>, or Ameer for all the
Muslims at that time... so where does this false condition come from?...
Not from the True <i>'Ulamaa</i>.
<p>If one is sincere in finding the Truth of this matter, then I advise
one to obtain some of Shaykh Al-Albaani's lectures on Jihaad, wherein he
states clearly his positions on both the Offensive, and Defensive Jihaad.&nbsp;
<p>For instance, on his tape "<i>Fataawa hawl al-Jihaad al-afghaani.</i>"
<font size=-1>(1)</font>,
one of the students asks him if the Jihaad in Afghanistan is <i>Fard 'ayn</i>,
or <i>Fard kifaayah</i>, and the Shaykh replied that it was <i>Fard 'ayn</i>,
because the number of Muslims fighting the <i>Mushrikeen</i> army of Russia
was not enough. He also said that every Muslim was required to participate
in this Jihaad...
<p>On the issue of the Offensive Jihaad (which also follows), then I advise
one to listen to the Shaykh's tape, "<i>Shubuhaat mud'iyee al-Jihaad.</i>".
In this lecture he clarifies his position on the establishment of the <u>Offensive</u>
Jihaad, and it is this type of Jihaad which - according to the Shaykhs
view - can only be carried out under a <i>Khilaafah</i>, whereas the <i>Defensive</i>
Jihaad (i.e. the Muslims are fighting to raise the Word of Allaah <i><font color="#000099">(Ta'aala)</font></i>,
and/or to protect their lands from the <i>Kuffaar</i>) can be performed
with, or without an Ameer for all the Muslims...
<p>And this is the saying all the <i>'Ulamaa</i>.
<p>And Allaah <i><font color="#000099">(Subhaanahu wa Ta'aala)</font></i>
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<td><b><i>Now, to the Shaykhs response regarding the establishment of the
Offensive Jihaad:</i></B>
<p>"With respect to Jihaad, O my Brother, in this time and before this
time it is <i>fard 'ayn</i>, because the problem at hand is not a problem
of Bosnia and Chechnya (alone) which has again moved the emotions of the
muslim youth. For here we have neighbouring us, the Jews who have occupied
Palestine, and not a <i>single</i> Islaamic country has moved to establish
the obligation of making Jihaad with them, and evicting them and throwing
them in the sea, as some of, or one of the presidents of the Islaamic lands
used to say.&nbsp;
<p>And the point is that Jihaad is <i>fard 'ayn</i>, because many of the
Muslim lands have been occupied in the past and the present by the <i>kuffaar</i>.
And the likes of this occupation is not hidden from the Muslim who concerns
himself with the affairs of the muslims, not to speak of the Islaamic groups
or Islaamic sects, or Islaamic lands.&nbsp;
<p>But Jihaad has pillars and conditions, and we -<i> </i>the group of
Muslim Scholars - believe that the obligatory Jihaad is only obligatory
upon those muslims who would help one another to establish what Allaah
has obligated upon them from the Jihaad against the <i>kuffaar</i>, and
evicting them from the lands they have occupied.&nbsp;
<p>And we do not need now to relate the evidences from the Book and Sunnah,
for this point has no difference of opinion over it between the Scholars
- that Jihaad is <i>fard 'ayn</i> when an area of the Muslim land is occupied,
<i>so
how about when the occupation has occurred in many lands?!</i>
<p>But, unfortunately, I wish to say that this Jihaad which is fard - rather
<i>fard
'ayn</i> - is not possible to be established by individuals as occurs in
the question, rather not even by some of the Islaamic groups. Because the
likes of this Jihaad, especially in our times in which the means of fighting
have become many, is not possible to be established by the Islaamic groups,
not to speak of individuals!&nbsp;
<p>But the obligation is upon the countries, and those Islaamic countries
that have the strength to prepare for war, and the means of modern day
warfare, by which if they gathered together sincerely for this Jihaad they
would establish the <i>fard 'ayn</i>.&nbsp;
<p><i>But, very unfortunately, these countries have not moved a limb to
establish this.</i>
<p>So maybe they refer the matter of this Jihaad to the various Islaamic
groups and sects, while these are not capable of doing anything to stop
the advance/attack of the <i>kuffaar</i>. And the current affairs bear
witness to the fact that any Islaamic group that tries, either to fight
the aggressor as occurred in Afghanistan for example, or by revolting against
the ruler whose <i>kufr</i> has become clear, like in Algeria for example
- then these unfortunate occurrences indicate that the individual Jihaad,
or group Jihaad does not produce the expected fruit, and that is that the
Word of Allaah be made Supreme.&nbsp;
<p>So therefore, we believe that this Jihaad is not possible except under
an Islaamic authority firstly, and under an Islaamic group comprising of
people from different lands, not just one land or one region.
<p>And add to this the necessity that <i>taqwa</i> of Allaah be present,
by staying away from what Allaah has prohibited from the matters that are
well known amongst the Muslims, but unfortunately they are very far from
putting into practice.
<p>And we have mentioned - <i>and I am trying to summarise my words as
much as possible</i> - many times that what has befallen the Muslims today,
this humiliation and abasement/ignominy that has not been known in the
history of Islaam at all, is that the muslims have misapplied, <i>at the
very least</i>, one verse of the Qur'aan....and that is the Saying of Allaah:
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<p><b>{<i><font color="#990000">If you help Allaah, Allaah will Help you.</font></i>}</B></center>

<p>And there is no doubt that this Help of the Muslims from Allaah, is
Help in making the Laws of the <i>Sharee'ah</i> an observable reality,
and this unfortunately is not realised in the <i>majority</i> of the Islaamic
lands, or in the Muslim individuals. And those amongst the Muslim lands
that do have some remnants of ruling by the Law of Allaah have not, uptil
now proclaimed the call to Jihaad.&nbsp;
<p>And due to this the Muslim individuals and nations will remain weak
as long as none of the Islaamic lands lift the flag of Jihaad, and that
Jihaad which calls for fighting those nearest them, not those that are
far, far away.&nbsp;
<p>For the muslims, with their lands, and groups, and sects, and as individuals,
if they cannot establish Jihaad with those that neighbour them, or are
close to them, then they are not capable of making Jihaad with those that
are distant from them.... for example Eritrea, ,Somalia, Bosnia and Chechnya.
<p>And due to this we mention now, that it is upon the Muslim youth as
individuals and groups and sects that they spread the correct Islaamic
awareness in the lands firstly, and then in the rulers secondly - and that
(correct understanding) is that <u>all</u> of these people rule by what
Allaah <i><font color="#000099">(Ta'aala)</font> </i>has revealed.
<p><i>- The ruler, that he rules by what Allaah has revealed and ordered.</i>
<p><i>- The individual that he rules by what Allaah has revealed...</i>
<p>I know that today many of the individuals, and groups and sects, throw
the responsibilty (of the state of affairs) onto the rulers <i>only</i>,
while in my certain belief the responsibility equally falls upon these
individuals, groups and sects, as it falls upon these rulers!
<p>This is because these governments arose from the lands of these Muslims...
these Muslims who were addressed by two Ahadeeth from the Messenger<i><font color="#000099">
(sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam)</font></i>... the first his<i><font color="#000099">
(sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam)</font></i> saying,
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<p><font color="#000000">"</font><b><i><font color="#000099">When you deal
with interest, and hold fast to the tail of the cow,&nbsp;</font></i></B>
<br><b><i><font color="#000099">and become contented with agriculture,
and you leave Jihaad fi-sabeelillaah&nbsp;</font></i></B>
<br><b><i><font color="#000099">(in the Way of Allaah), Allaah will Permit
your humiliation and</font></i></B>
<br><b><i><font color="#000099">will not lift it from you until you return
to your Deen.</font></i></B><font color="#000000">"</font></center>

<p>And the second hadeeth, his <i><font color="#000099">(sallallaahu 'alayhi
wa sallaam)</font></i> saying,
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<p><font color="#000000">"</font><b><i><font color="#000099">The nations
[will] summon each other upon you as you call guests to eat from a plate
of food",</font></i></B></center>

<p><font color="#000000">They (the <i>Sahaabah</i>) said , "</font><i><font color="#000099">Will
we be few in number on that day O Messenger of Allaah?</font></i><font color="#000000">"
He </font><i><font color="#000099">(sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam)</font></i><font color="#000000">
said,&nbsp;</font>
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<p><font color="#000000">"</font><b><i><font color="#000099">No, rather
you will be many on that day, but you will be like the foam&nbsp;</font></i></B>
<br><b><i><font color="#000099">on the ocean. And Allaah will remove the
fear in the hearts of</font></i></B>
<br><b><i><font color="#000099">your enemies and place in your hearts al-wahn.</font></i></B><font color="#000000">"</font></center>

<p><font color="#000000">They said, "</font><i><font color="#000099">What
is al-wahn O Messenger of Allaah?</font></i><font color="#000000">" He
</font><i><font color="#000099">(sallallaahu
'alayhi wa sallam) </font></i><font color="#000000">said,</font>
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<p><font color="#000000">"</font><b><i><font color="#000099">Love of this
world, and hatred of death.</font></i></B><font color="#000000">"</font></center>

<p>And these occurrences which are mentioned by the Messenger <i><font color="#000099">(sallallaahu
'alayhi wa sallam)</font></i> in this hadeeth have now occurred in <i>every</i>
Muslim society, and they are from the clear afflictions that necessitate
the descent of this humiliation upon the muslims until the hearts of the
rulers, and individuals become totally covered in <i>black</i> (due to
their sins).&nbsp;
<p>The Muslim lands do not rule by what Allaah revealed, and if there is
one amongst them that does (<i>claim to</i>) rule by what Allaah revealed,<i>
then the first clear indication that it does not rule by what Allaah revealed
is that it does not raise the call for Jihaad.</i>
<p>So if this time is not the time in which Jihaad <i>fi-sabeelillaah</i>
does not become obligatory, and many of the Muslims lands have been occupied,
then when will this Jihaad become obligatory?
<p>But the problem - and this is the heart of the matter<i> </i>- is that
there is no one amongst us who is capable of undertaking (this Offensive
Jihaad), why?...&nbsp;
<p><i>Because we are drowning in sins, and drowning in sectarian differences
and national differences, and we know that one of the doorways to weakness
and defeat is that the Muslims differ amongst themselves.</i>
<p>And we have been tried recently with a very sad trial, and that is the
<i>Afghaani</i>
Jihad, where we were hoping that its endpoint would be Victory for the
Muslims, and there were strong signs for placing the seed of the Islaamic
state. Then the end result turned out to be totally opposite (to what was
hoped), due to the early signs of Victory over the enemy, the communists
(<i>shuyuiyyeen</i>), diminished when the differences between the tribes
made them split into seven<i> </i>groups, and their Islaam, which they
took as Deen, did<i> </i>not<i> </i>prevent them from doing this, and our
Lord says,
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<p><b>{<i><font color="#990000">...and do not be from the mushriks. From
those that split their&nbsp;</font></i></B>
<br><b><i><font color="#990000">Deen and became sects, each sect rejoicing
in what it has.</font></i>}</B></center>

<p>Therefore, it is upon the one who desires to go on Jihaad that he gets
the means of Jihaad, and the means of aquiring Victory, and that is not
realisable in our times, unfortunately. And Allaah says in the Noble Qur'aan,
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<p><b><font color="#000000">{</font><i><font color="#990000">Indeed Allaah
will not change the state of a people&nbsp;</font></i></B>
<br><b><i><font color="#990000">until they change what is in themselves.</font></i><font color="#000000">}</font></B></center>

<p>Therefore, we call the Muslim individuals, and groups and sects, not
to speak of the governments, but that they concern themselves by spreading
the purified, <i>authentic</i> Islaam, purified from every spurious element
that has entered it with the passing of time, and then bring up the Muslims
on this purified Islaam.
<p>The day when these signs begin, and become clear in this vast Islaamic
land, that day shall the signs of getting ready to establish this <i>fard
'ayn</i> [of the Offensive] Jihaad begin.
<p>These anxious individuals that go to many of the Muslim lands invaded/attacked
by the <i>kuffaar</i> like Bosnia and Chechnya for example... what are
the weapons that they have with them? Who are the leaders who can discipline
them, and make them fight under <i>one</i> authority and under <i>one</i>
flag?
<p>So if there was a single authority then we would see the (fruits) of
the Jihaad as we saw them in Afghanistan (i.e Victory over the aggressor).&nbsp;
<p>Therefore Allaah Says,
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<p><b><font color="#000000">{</font><i><font color="#990000">And prepare
for them what you can from strength and&nbsp;</font></i></B>
<br><b><i><font color="#990000">weapons to strike terror into the hearts
of the</font></i></B>
<br><b><i><font color="#990000">enemies of Allaah and your enemies.</font></i><font color="#000000">}</font></B></center>

<p><b><i>Where is this preparation?!</i></B>
<p><i>And who is the one capable of this preparation? The individual?!</i>
<p><i>No...</i> the governments?... <i>yes the governments</i>, and it
is possible for us to say that they do establish a small amount of this
preparation...&nbsp;
<p><i>But this preparation is taken from their enemies...</i> <i>so if
there was a Jihaad established between the kaafir and Muslims, then soon
these Muslims would not be capable of supplying their armies with the necessary
weapons except by buying them from their enemies.</i>
<p><i><font color="#000000">So can their be Victory and Jihaad by buying
weapons from the enemies of the Muslims?!</font></i>
<p>This is impossible, and due to this, this preparation ordered us, cannot
be established even by the Islaamic countries, because the Islaamic countries
buy their weapons of destruction from their enemies and aggreviated states.&nbsp;
<p>And there are ways of making these weapons <i>malfunction</i> when they
(the Muslims) intend to use them against the <i>kaafir</i> enemy.
<p>And due to this I say, and I finish my words and reply upon this question
that Allaah, when He said,&nbsp;
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<p><b>{<i><font color="#990000">And prepare for them what you can...</font></i>}</B></center>

<p>This address was to the Companions of the Prophet<i><font color="#000099">
(sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam)</font></i>, then the address is directed
to the<i> </i>generality of muslims due to the generality of the text.&nbsp;
<p>But this address was directed to the <i>Sahaabah</i> after they were
brought up on the<i> authentic </i>Islaamic upbringing until it was possible
for them to establish the likes of this address - preparing the worldly
might after preparing the spiritual might in themselves, or with themselves,
due to the upbringing they went through at the hands of their Prophet<i><font color="#000099">
(sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam)</font></i>.&nbsp;
<p>And history repeats itself.....So there has to be an upbringing of a
nation from the Islaamic nations so that it may be possible for this nation
to establish this worldly preparedness, and we today do not find a nation
that has established this obligation which we can depict in two words:
<i>tasfiyyah
</i>(correction)
<i>and
tarbiyyah</i> (education/cultivation).&nbsp;
<p><i>(Rather) we see us as scattered individuals here and there</i>. And
if there were a group, and over this group a leader who has the allegiance
of<i> all </i>the Muslims, and he raises the flag of Jihaad against the
enemies: this has not happened yet, and due to this we call for the existence
of this introduction/predicate to this holy Jihaad.&nbsp;
<p>And, as for running (of these people) behind emotions when the spiritual
Jihaad has not even been realised in them - and that is the correct understanding
of Islaam, and applying it collectively, and that there be over them a
leader after that, and he enjoins them to prepare what they can from strength
and weapons:&nbsp;
<p>So the day we see the likes of this, that day the Muslims will rejoice
in the Victory of Allaah, and Allaah Helps whom He Wills.
<p>This is my answer to your question."</td>
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<blockquote><font size=-1><b>1)</B> The tapes, "<i>Fataawa hawl al-Jihaad
al-afghaani</i>", and "<i>shubuhaat mud'iyeel Jihaad.</i>", can be bought
from the following Website: <a href="http://www.badercenter.com">www.badercenter.com</a>.
<i>Alhamdulillaah</i>,
I received the information concerning these tapes, including the clarification
of Shaykh Al-Albaani's True stance on these issues, from a good Brother
whom I trust; May Allaah <i><font color="#000099">(Ta'aala)</font></i>
Reward him.</font>
<p><font size=-1>May Allaah <i><font color="#000099">(Ta'aala)</font></i>
forgive all those who have held, till now, a false conception regarding
our Beloved Shaykh Muhammad Naasir ud-Deen Al-Albaani <i><font color="#000099">(rahimahullaah)</font></i><font color="#000000">
concerning the issue of Jihaad and the rules of it's establishment. Indeed,
he is free of those who have attributed this falsehood to him.</font></font></Blockquote>

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